[barredo]

I know you're anon trolling, but the authors' names are:

Chitwan Saharia, William Chan, Saurabh Saxena†, Lala Li†, Jay Whang†, Emily Denton, Seyed Kamyar Seyed Ghasemipour, Burcu Karagol Ayan, S. Sara Mahdavi, Rapha Gontijo Lopes, Tim Salimans, Jonathan Ho†, David Fleet†, Mohammad Norouzi

[hda2]

Google AI researchers don't have the final say in what gets published and what doesn't. I think there was a huge controversy when people learned about it last year.

[pid-1]

Absolutely not related to the whole discussion, but what do "†" stands for?

[joshcryer]

It's just a different asterisk to distinguish, in this case, in the paper, they are "core contributors."

[dntrkv]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)